Khayyam Mirzazade

Khayyam Mirzazade
Background information
Born(1935-10-05)5 October 1935
OriginBaku, Azerbaijan
Died30 July 2018(2018-07-30) (aged 82)
OccupationComposer

Khayyam Hadi oglu Mirzazade (Azerbaijani: Xəyyam Hadı oğlu Mirzəzadə; 5 October 1935 – 30 July 2018)[1] was an Azerbaijani composer and professor.[2][3][4][5]

Biography

Khayyam Mirzazade was born on October 5, 1935, in Baku.[6] In 1957, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Conservatoire[7] and from 1957, he taught at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. From 1969 to 1983, he was the manager of composition cathedra at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire.[8] Khayyam Mirzazade is the author of symphonic and chamber compositions, music to drama spectacles and movies and lyric songs.[9]

On October 7, 2000, he was awarded with Shohrat Order by the President of Azerbaijan.

Titles and awards

  • Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1972)
  • People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1987)
  • Lenin Komsomol Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR (1970)
  • State premiums of Azerbaijan (1976,[10] 1986)
  • “Shohrat” Order (2000)[11]

Compositions

For chorus, soloist and symphony orchestra:

  • “Blossom, our Motherland” cantata (together with E.Mahmudov, lyrics by Z.Jabbarzade, 1964)
  • Ode about party (lyrics by B.Vahabzade, 1975)

For symphony orchestra:

  • Symphony I (1957)
  • Symphony II (Triptych, 1970)
  • Little lyric suite (1963)
  • Sketches-63 (1963)
  • “In Mughan fields” suite (1967)

For chamber orchestra:

  • Music (1964)
  • 3 choreographic scenes (1969)

For woodwind instruments:

For string quartet:

  • Quartet I (1956)
  • Quartet II (1961)
  • Four miniatures (1958)
  • Norashen dances (1972)

For brass instruments:

  • Quartet (1970)

For violin and fortepiano:

For solo instrument

  • Genesis, Sonata for viola solo (1982)

Music to movies

  • 1961 – “Our street”
  • 1964 – “Summit” (a plot in film-almanach “Whom do we love much”
  • 1970 – “My seven sons”
  • 1972 – “I grew up at the seaside”
  • 1973 – “Along a dangerous marine way” (short-movie)
  • 1974 – “Winds blow in Baku”
  • 1977 – “A stab in the back”
  • 1978 – “Country house for one family”
  • 1981 – “The day after tomorrow, at midnight”
  • 1985 – “Cottage season”
  • 1987 – “Aphrodite’s hands” (short movie)
  • 1990 – “Basement”
  • 1993 – “My white city”
  • 1993 – “Hello from another world”
  • 1993-2002 – “Shooting is postponed”

References

  1. ^ Скончался выдающийся композитор, народный артист Хайям Мирзазаде (in Russian)
  2. ^ "Мирза-Заде Хайям Хады-оглы".
  3. ^ "Мирзазаде Хайям Хады оглы".
  4. ^ "Мирзазаде Хайям Хады-оглы".
  5. ^ "Хайям Мирзазаде и современность". Archived from the original on 2011-10-12.
  6. ^ "Живу так, как мечтал – композитор Хайям Мирзазаде". Trend.
  7. ^ "Исповедь седьмого ученика Кара Караева". azeri.ru. Archived from the original on 2012-05-26.
  8. ^ "Мирзазаде Хайям". Baku Pages.
  9. ^ "ХАЙЯМ МИРЗАЗАДЕ О СЕБЕ, О МУЗЫКЕ, О ЖИЗНИ". Archived from the original on 2011-12-18.
  10. ^ Ədəbiyyat, incəsənət və arxitektura sahəsində 1976-cı il Azərbaycan SSR Dövlət mükafatlarının verilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan KP MK-nın və Azərbaycan SSR Nazirlər Sovetinin 1976-cı il tarixli Qərarı — anl.az
  11. ^ "ПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ КНИГ ХАЙЯМА МИРЗАЗАДЕ". anl.az. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.